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Lake, N.D. – The city of Devils Lake dropped its appeal of a state effort to use eminent domain to take city-owned land to build a flood control structure on the Tolna Coulee. The city commission voted unanimously to reverse its decision to fight the state in court.

The coulee is a natural outlet to the Sheyenne River for Devils Lake flood waters should the lake continue to rise. The state and U-S Army Corps of Engineers say a water control structure is needed to prevent a catastrophic overflow, but city officials believe a structure would act like a dam and worsen flooding in the Devils Lake basin.

(Rising waters of Devils Lake continue to swallow up property near the lake. Photos by Steve Urness.)

Mayor Dick Johnson says it’s time for the two sides to work together.

 

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